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  • mmmm@sopuli.xyztoDogs@lemmy.worldThere's the difference
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    3 hours ago

    Fair enough, because it happened to me once - found a funny comic strip in FB or something and thought “this is great, I’ll share this on Reddit” so fired up GIMP, translated it, credited the place I got it from and posted - but not long someone let the actual author of the comic to know and they commented something among the lines of “yeah, I was who actually did this, a bit sad that they’re taking out my name but it’s great it makes people laugh”, and then the other people torched me. Fortunately I still had opened the place I got it in the first place and explained to them that I just translated it in a hurry and assumed the original author was the place I found it








  • Some 20-25 years ago on a local radio FM station they used to run a “bumper” from time to time of a narrator saying that one time in WWII Nazi Germany sent a decrepit train full of excrement, trash and whatnot to neutral Switzerland, trying to tease them and make them join the war. In rensponse Switzerland cleaned, fixed and painted the train, put fresh food and flowers and everything and sent it back to Germany and in the engine they put a giant banner reading “each one gives the best of themselves” or something like that - pretty sure that story was just a myth but at those times when I heard it I wished it was true because it was so fucking funny.






  • Just be aware that that ain’t as easy as opening a graphic, selecting something, changing the opacity, saving and voilá.

    Some files can be in svg format, some can be in svgz format. svgz is just a gzipped svg but I’m not sure if Inkscape can open them directly.

    Then most probably the svg elements that build the parts of the panel or the plasmoid can and most probably would be grouped. So you need to ungroup them first and be aware of that. Maybe they’re grouped because that’s how Plasma seeks them as an individual element and, if it’s that, they will have an special id associated for them so Plasma can find them (iirc in Inkscape you can check for that in Object->Properties or something like that, a popup dialog will appear). So take note of those ids.

    Once you’re done editing your stuff be sure all elements are grouped and id-ed as they came originally and then you can save the file(s) so Plasma will find the files and elements correctly without messing them up.

    (See, that’s why I hate that Plasma relies on SVG for all of that stuff. The very fact that you require a non-kde app to create/edit/update them is unbelievably stupid)